Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Horgan, Paul

Citizen of New Salem Paul Horgan; Illustrations by Douglas Gorsline - New York Farrar, Straus & Cudahy 1961 - 89 p.

This book chronicles the years of self discoveries in the frontier village of New Salem, Illinois. Lincoln was twenty-one when he came there as a flatboatman, working for Denton Offutt, whose boat he had navigated down the Sangamon and Mississippi to New Orleans.


Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865


United States -- History--Civil War--Biography

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